Thread: Gardening in a secure village just outside of Chonburi city

Neil,
did you consider a leaky feed hose system? you can get proprietry designed systems or, alternatively lay a plastic hose pipe amongst your plants and puncture the hose with a small hole adjacent to relevant plants

It would be great if anyone had any ideas on this subject and can give me some help?
I want to save the water in large containers (above ground I think?).
I will need to get the water out of the containers to water the garden when needed but how should I do that? Would I need a pump? (in the water container?).

hello Neil,
If you either arrange your container(s) as high as possible and in such a position as to receive run off rainwater, you will not require a pump. On my UK allotment I arranged mine such that the bottom of the containers were approx 6ft off the ground. Since you get roughly 0.5 lbs/ sq in for every 1ft of elevation you will have sufficient "head" for all your needs courtesy of gravity. If you use more than one container you must drill holes as near to the BOTTOM as possible and connect them together with proprietry `tank connectors`.
IMPORTANT: One cubic metre of water weighs 1 tonne!! MAKE SURE YOUR SUPPORT IS SAFELY ADEQUATE

Originally Posted by Rich524

IMPORTANT: One cubic metre of water weighs 1 tonne!! MAKE SURE YOUR SUPPORT IS SAFELY ADEQUATE

You should have told our neighbours last year that the water in Thailand is quite heavy! They also decided to save the rain water from the roof in a huge plastic container that they bought from Home Pro but they didn't mount it on anything other than a few blocks and a huge piece of wood.
Big downpour one evening and then .. the whole thing fell over sideways and although it didn't cause any damage it did flood away half of their garden front.

Thanks .. and have fun ...

[quote=neilandmeechai;1677006]

Originally Posted by Rich524

IMPORTANT: One cubic metre of water weighs 1 tonne!! MAKE SURE YOUR SUPPORT IS SAFELY ADEQUATE

You should have told our neighbours.......

I supported mine on a dozen or so pallets, which were freely available in UK. Don`t know about here. A few stips of tongue and groove tidies them up!

Example of extreme water storage system built in Thailand.

Originally Posted by taxexile

Things are slowly starting to look "Tropical" ..


youve certainly got some impressive foliage around your back entrance there, do you know what sort of tree it is?

the tree you have there, i'm 99.9% sure, is an ivory coast almond, or more specifically:
Terminalia ivorensis


here's a link to some info about it:

Species Information


i planted 6 of these about 3 1/2 years ago in a corner of my land where i thought the soil was the shittiest. they were +/- 6 feet high when planted. now, they've got to be pushing 35 feet.

btw, i'm not botanist by any means. i spent weeks on and off searching for the name of this type of tree. with no luck.



a word of advice for those not too bright like me. have your wife type in the thai name in google thai. 3 minutes later my search had ended....


btw, nice looking yard you got there.

Hi galaxytrash ....

Thanks for your comments, compliments and for the information. I am wondering if you are referring to the huge tree in the photo or to the row of small trees I just planted along the driveway?

Hope to hear back from you if you get chance ...

Originally Posted by neilandmeechai

Hi galaxytrash ....

Thanks for your comments, compliments and for the information. I am wondering if you are referring to the huge tree in the photo or to the row of small trees I just planted along the driveway?

Hope to hear back from you if you get chance ...

n&m, i was referring to the big brute.

here's a link to some pictures and you can compare for yourself, just to be sure i ain't pullin' your chain.

Terminalia ivorensis images - Google Search

Originally Posted by galaxytrash

Originally Posted by neilandmeechai

Hi galaxytrash ....

Thanks for your comments, compliments and for the information. I am wondering if you are referring to the huge tree in the photo or to the row of small trees I just planted along the driveway?

Hope to hear back from you if you get chance ...

n&m, i was referring to the big brute.

here's a link to some pictures and you can compare for yourself, just to be sure i ain't pullin' your chain.

Terminalia ivorensis images - Google Search

Hi and thanks for your informative feedback ...
It certainly could get to be even bigger! ... and already in only a few years.
Now I still have to try and find out about the row of small ones I planted in the driveway.

Originally Posted by neilandmeechai

I thought that whilst I was still discussing trees like the one in my previous pictures that nearly died before eventually becoming a very strong and worthwhile addition to our garden providing us with lots of shade just where we need it.

This row of small trees I planted along the side of the village boundary wall which is just opposite the front of the house.
I want them to eventually camouflage the wall and possibly even give a bit more height to the view if they can grow taller then the wall?
They are connected to a bubbler (mini sprinkler) system that provides them with water twice a day in the early morning and again just after sundown.

Can anyone help by telling me what kind they are and what kind of growth I should expect? .... Thanks in advance for any advice ...

This is a similar photo 3 months later and I don't see a lot (or any!) change in the height of the new trees?


Sorry but this photo is very low quality as it was taken by a friend with his mobile ...

you will probably find they will spurt up when the rainy season starts

Originally Posted by DrAndy

you will probably find they will spurt up when the rainy season starts

That is also possible of course but as they are watered twice daily at the moment I had expected "some" growth, but I do agree with you that a mass growth of many plants suddenly happens when the rainy season arrives. I do hope so as this boundary wall is quite an eyesore in front of the house.
We have also considered growing some sort of climbing plants against the wall to see if we can disguise it a bit in that way but I really don't know what plants I should use?

Anyway, thanks again for the feedback ...

Originally Posted by neilandmeechai

We have also considered growing some sort of climbing plants against the wall to see if we can disguise it a bit in that way but I really don't know what plants I should use?

Try this. Doing well at my place.

Originally Posted by Norton

Flame Vine, Pyrostegia venusta. Growing fast and doing well. Plan is to have it cover part of patio.

Will end up like this. That's the plan anyway.

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by neilandmeechai

We have also considered growing some sort of climbing plants against the wall to see if we can disguise it a bit in that way but I really don't know what plants I should use?

Try this. Doing well at my place.

Originally Posted by Norton

Flame Vine, Pyrostegia venusta. Growing fast and doing well. Plan is to have it cover part of patio.

Will end up like this. That's the plan anyway.

Hi Norton and thanks for your feedback ...
WoW! What a great looking solution for a very big eye-sore (our boundary wall), and I have tried to check it out on the net and it seems as if it is also quite a quick grower.

If I manage to get some plants I will post the pics but it could be a while as we are not at the house at the moment.

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by neilandmeechai

If I manage to get some plants I will post the pics but it could be a while as we are not at the house at the moment.

The wife got ours from the local temple. Were about 1/4 the size when she planted 3 months ago. With a bit of fertilizer and plenty of water have grown rapidly. Cliamte and soil in Roiet simular to Korat so you should get similar result.

You should be able to find in Korat. Quite common in Thailand.

Thanks .. but just for the info we are not in Korat! .. We are just outside of Chonburi near Bang Saen Beach ...

Thanks again ... Neil

Originally Posted by kelantan

Your "One of the original revolving sprinkler heads" looked more solid then the new one..???

Hi kelantan ...
Not really!, I actually used the two different types of sprinkler heads for two different purposes.

The revolving type as shown in this image seems to give an even covering of a smaller area (than the other jet type).


The other Jet type as shown in this image can reach quite some distance although I found with the jet receiving full power of the water pressure it could actually cause damage to more delicate plants and flowers.


Since our rebuild and extension of the house we have changed the watering system quite a lot and have also made quite a lot of use of the "Mini sprinklers" and "Bubbler" systems that give a far more direct amount of water on the plant directly. During late 2010 we had to change things for the automatic watering systems as some of them were not working so well. It took a while of testing and re-routing of the water supply but eventually it was quite simple .... Too many watering points on too little pressure!
I will try to post some more photo's of the new watering system layout including 3 separate timers as soon as possible, but we are away at the moment.

Thanks for your comments ....
Neil